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Posts on ‘January 11th, 2008’

I’m @ ALA

I’m in Philadelphia until Monday for the American Library Association Midwinter meeting. I’ll be at the SPARC-ACRL Forum and Discussion Group, which focus on student engagement with open access. I’ll also occasionally be at the SPARC booth (in the 1700 row).

NIH predictions: some right, some wrong

Last week, I posted a list of predictions regarding the implementation and effects of the newly-mandated NIH public access policy. A few have turned out to be true, and a few have already proven to be at least half-wrong. (There goes my career in Cassadaga.)
My first prediction had to do with when the agency would [...]

Another contribution to the commons — this one’s a Spanish textbook

A book which I scanned has just been posted to Project Gutenberg, free (gratis and public domain) to the world. It’s a textbook for learning Spanish: Lecturas fáciles con ejercicios, by Lawrence Wilkins and Max Luria, from 1916. It’s Project Gutenberg etext #24250, and should be available here shortly; an HTML version is directly available [...]

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